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Retail theropy - AC3, DVD and linux
by David Freeman 07 Jul '01

07 Jul '01

List, I feel the need for some new hardware. I was thinking for some time of getting a new graphics card, the Geforce 2 MX powered ASUS cards look nice. But I also decided I would get a DVD drive. This leaves me with some questions. 1) Is it worth getting TV out on a graphics card? for a desktop machine? 2) How well is the geforce 2 MX supported on Linux? 3) Are DVD rom drives fixed as a single region? if so how do I unfix it? 4) Do DVD rom drives have a S/PDIF output on the drive? 5) Can any one recommend a cheap sound card which will give me 6 channel sound output from the DVD drive and allow me to output it to my surround amp? 6) What dvd decoding software would people recommend? I think that was all. Thanks D PS did rabbit go down today Mark? PPS Owen, did I send my last email to you or the list? ===== -------------------- "We all know Linux is great... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." Linus Torvalds __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

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Re: [Alug] linux expo..
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 07 Jul '01

07 Jul '01

David freeman wrote: >PS Jen: I have an IBM football for you Brilliant! Thanks greatly. >We marched through with penguin held hi chanting FOLLOW THE PENGUIN! You silly, silly things, you. Wish I'd been there! Did you, like, merge lugs? Jenny.

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Re: [Alug] I here God
by MJ Ray 07 Jul '01

07 Jul '01

David Freeman <david_freeman(a)rocketmail.com> writes: > Now your must be evil, this sounds like a great trick, Must work out > how to do this. The sound of Big wheel eminating from black. You need the pcsp patches. They have to be tidied a bit to work with 2.2.19 last I checked, but it can be done. If I was clever, I'd compile a new version of the patch myself. -- MJR

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I here God
by David Freeman 07 Jul '01

07 Jul '01

Well not really, but do a cat zmlinuz > /dev/audio So strange! I love it! Hmmm, what does gcc sound like? Thanks D ===== -------------------- "We all know Linux is great... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." Linus Torvalds __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

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RE: [Alug] Arrrrggg!
by Earl Brannigan 07 Jul '01

07 Jul '01

Yoiks Scoobz.... On 06 July 2001 12:08, Neill Newman [SMTP:neill@entora.co.uk] wrote: > Earl Brannigan wrote: > > > > > > Hi Dave... > > Its No Joke... its very serious! > > > > Neill has a serious problem expressing his dislike of certain > > things...especially where programming is concerned. > > I have nnooo problems expressing my thoughts.. it's just that other > people don't understand my grunts ;)... > > > To humour him I entertain his little expressions, Argggghhh being the prime > > one. > > Eventually when evolution has completed its course future generations of > > Newmans will be able to use language much like the rest of us do today, > > Until then Argggghhhh!!!!! is about as close as he can get to "I don't like > > it that way..." > > that depends on where you place the inflections ;) aarrgghhh is a cross > platform, cross culture, cross dressed expression that spans many Is Arrggghhh Male? Just trying to imagine a Cross Dressed Version, perhaps wearing some Ann Summers stuff.... > languages.. even the Russians on MIR used the expression when bits fell > off! Apparently, but "In Space No-One can hear you Arrrggghhh" ... And I'm sure it was closer to : ARRRGGGHHH-ski > > > The speech therapist says he is making good progress and that next week > > they will be studying two-syllabled words!! > > I'm currently progressing onto more expressive one-syllable words such > as "D'oh", and now that it is offically part of the english language I'm > bold enough to say that, give enough time, and enough trained monkeys, I > might be able to knock up some perl poetry in about 2 million years... > > until then.. arrgghh and D'oh is about my limit ;) > Sz > To the tune of Doh Reh Me from The Sound of Music : All together now.... Arrggghhh a grunt, a moanful grunt, Arrggghhh expresses how you feel. Arrggghhh a name I call my mom, Arrggghhh a burp after a meal. Arrggghhh A chat up line to work, Arrggghhh to get rid of a jerk, Arrggghhh to send your dog berserk, That will bring us back to AAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!

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Re: [Alug] Encrypting disks...
by MJ Ray 07 Jul '01

07 Jul '01

Andrew J Glover <flexifoil(a)btinternet.com> writes: > /usr/include/linux is supposed to be a symlink to > /usr/src/linux/include/linux, isnt it? No. Never. If you do that, if you replace your kernel source (eg to start moving to another kernel version or patchset, but not immediately), you could find yourself linking against the wrong kernel headers. Especially if (like me), you have more than one kernel lying around in similar locations. Or what if you decide to delete the kernel source because you broke it badly while hacking it? On debian, you'll also confuse the kernel-headers package that was installed when you installed your system. I think other distributions have similar packages. Use the kernel-headers package made by your make-kpkg. You know it makes sense. (Make sure that it's the right one for the kernel, though.) -- MJR

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3 button mouse
by John Seago 07 Jul '01

07 Jul '01

I think I've found the easiest answer, that is to use the dialogue box when updating, at least it looks to me much less scary than tackling the command line stuff. having managed to get balsa to take incoming Emails as well as sending, (I've got KDE to work for Emails), I then tried to get Pan to work, but both it and Balsa seem to have terrible 'Authentication' problems lots of error messages and then crashing. This is probably something I've done, but as I have no idea what I'm doing I can't tell. Pan won't work, according to the log, as I can't log on to BTinternet news, KDE Email is also reporting 'bad log' with BT, I re-typed all my passwords so I don't think its that so it must be something I've done when I installed and attempted to configure it. Coping with this, (Linux), is getting to be more of a full time job than a simple change to a reliable system, still it fills the days, and the nights, and all the time when I should be doing something else, perhaps I should get some Debian Disks, then the learning process involved in getting it installed and configured might enable me to work it when I've got it in! John Seago

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Re: [Alug] 3 Button mouse
by Neil Sedger 06 Jul '01

06 Jul '01

Jenny_Hopkins(a)toby-churchill.com wrote: > waiting for an expert to comment on this, i would have said to take a look > at your /etc/X11/XF86Config file - "pointers" section, or rerun XF86Config > from a cli. 'CLI' eh? I spot an ex-Amiga user :-) Neil

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Anyone in ALUG using Kylix ?
by bsamuels＠datamansys.co.uk 06 Jul '01

06 Jul '01

As per subject. Barry Samuels

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Re: [Alug] Encrypting disks...
by MJ Ray 06 Jul '01

06 Jul '01

Andrew J Glover <flexifoil(a)btinternet.com> writes: > As to debian, Ive never used their kernel packages, and looking in > dselect, the kerneli patch in potato is for 2.2.14 but theres a bug in > < 2.2.19 isnt there? I'm not saying use the debian kernel packages, I'm saying build your own so that your system is still in a consistent state when you've done with it ;-) You can build your own packages of whatever kernel you so wish. Try "man make-kpkg" if you have the kernel-package package installed. I know there's a nasty bug in .16-18, but I don't know whether it's just performance and driver enhancements otherwise. -- MJR

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